The Federal Court of Appeal has quashed the federal government’s approval of the troubled Trans Mountain expansion project, after concluding that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet made its decision without considering all evidence and failing in its legal duty to consult First Nations.

The decision, announced Aug. 30, is the first major court defeat for the project, requiring the government to ask the federal energy regulator or its successor to redo a federal environmental evaluation and correct a “critical” mistake it made to ignore the consequences of increased oil tanker traffic off the coast of British Columbia.

Human Rights Hub Winnipeg highlights Director Zack Embree and Devyn Brugge's work on Directly Affected: Pipeline Under Pressure and recommends a viewing as part of their "Top 10 Things You Can Do to Stop Pipelines from Anywhere in Canada" list.

When Zack Embree started production on his film Directly Affected: Pipeline Under Pressure, he had certain notions about his country.

“I grew up believing a story about Canada,” he says. “That we were a caring country that prided itself on being fair, democratic, and responsible… And that when it came down to it, we as a nation would do right by the world, even if it wasn’t easy.”

When Embree lost his job teaching art to people on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, he began to research climate change.

Filmmaker Zack Embree and environmentalist Tzeporah Berman take us behind the front lines of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Expansion Project protests and chat about the new documentary ‘Directly Affected’.

Protesters were arrested at a demonstration against the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion in Burnaby, one of them being Green Party leader Elizabeth May. We spoke with one of the protesters and documentary filmmaker Zack Embree.